The $10K/Month Creator Who Started With a Hair Tutorial and an iPhone

YouTube Creators Hub

Dusty Porter

Business, Marketing

4.7 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Swavy Curly Courtney shares her journey from a passion for curly hair to becoming a successful content creator on platforms like YouTube and Instagram. She discusses the importance of niching down, overcoming fears, and building a community around her content. Courtney also delves into her monetization strategies, including AdSense, sponsorships, and digital products, while sharing her future aspirations of opening a curly hair salon. Her insights provide valuable lessons for aspiring creators on how to turn their passions into a sustainable career.

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Courtney Duncan is a content creator, educator, and founder of Swavy Curly Courtney, where she helps women embrace the hair they were fearfully and wonderfully made with. Through honest, relatable education, she empowers wavy and curly-haired women to build confidence in their natural texture—no matter where they are in their journey. Courtney's mission is to make curl care simple, joyful, and rooted in grace.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's incredibly easy to get in your own head when you're doing a solopreneur-type venture like
0:07.3	this. YouTube is very only you until it expands out. The biggest tip is to think about the person
0:15.3	watching your videos. You're showing up for the person on the other side of the screen. That's why
0:20.4	you're here.
0:20.9	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the YouTube Creators Hub podcast where I sit down with
0:25.3	wonderful creators each and every Friday morning and I chat with them about their journey on
0:30.4	YouTube as a creator, their business, and everything in between. So welcome back if you are a
0:36.0	long time listener. And welcome, if you're a new
0:37.8	listener. We're receiving a lot of new listens lately and downloads, and I really appreciate that.
0:42.9	We don't have any sponsors for this show. We're just supported by our listeners like you. A couple of
0:47.8	things we have to offer for you. I do offer one-on-one YouTube coaching. So if you're looking for a
0:53.1	coach to walk alongside you, I do offer that.
0:55.8	I do that all throughout the week, and I have a few slots available. So if you're interested in
1:00.4	that, check the links out down below. The best bang for your buck, though, might be our
1:04.4	creators community over on our Discord server. For $5 to $10, you get access to exclusive private
1:10.6	podcast recordings each and every week that I record myself.
1:13.8	You also get access to our monthly mastermind calls, the private Discord server. Just the overall
1:19.7	ability to rub elbows with other creators all throughout the week and bounce ideas off of each other is worth the $5 to $10 alone. So go check that out if you haven't already. And then we have an email newsletter called The Entrepreneurs Minute, where it's a behind the scenes look of things that I recommend, whether they be tools, websites, books, resources, whatever they may be, and a little bit about what's going on in my life. So if you're looking to follow an entrepreneur and the journey they're on,
1:49.6	I will not spam your email inbox once a week on Friday. Go check that out if you haven't already.
1:53.8	So with that said, don't forget to subscribe. That way you get notified every Friday when we go live with a new episode wherever and however you either listen or watch to this podcast.
1:58.2	You can do it on any of the audio outlets out there like Apple Podcasts,
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